Sunday, June 27, 2010

Day 27 & 28

Hola people! Yesterday we drove MUCHO. After sleeping in Sweetwater, TX we went to Fort Worth and hunted for treasure :) Obviously... that's what we do now.After leaving Fort Worth, we drove to Arlington (where LINDSEY FREELS lives!!!). We were so pumped to see her, so we went straight to her church. There we met her pastors, our new friend Brittany, and Lindsey's roomies :) We were so excited because we were able to give ALL THREE boxes of our Bibles to the church! That was a huge bonus for all of us... including Abravan who is now 60 pounds lighter! Or something like that.We were able to go hang out with the youth group last night (Friday night) which ended up being such a blast. We played volleyball and soccer in the rain! We got reallllllly dirty. The kids are all crazy as can be which made the experience all the better. Not to mention we fit 12 girls in ONE vehicle. So on to today... we woke up to the smell of Lindsey's African grandmother (who feeds her cow tongue once a week) cooking something wretched-smelling. We got to try plantains... enough African food for now. Grandma is quite the amazing woman, and definitely marches to the beat of her own drum :) We then went with Lindsey and Brittany to the ghetto to find some treasure! After the exciting ghetto stores and hospital, we went back to Lindsey's church to listen to worship practice for a while. Tonight we went to a place called "Prayer Mountain" which was some serious God time. It was really awesome... and it seemed so parallel to the Garden of Gethsemene. We encountered treasure throughout all of these crazy adventures. Encounters:

We talked to a man and his daughter who had neon green shoelaces (clue)

Approached two women, one of which had a snowflake on her shirt (in the middle of June).

Talked to Ashley who had twin boys.

Dallas who was wearing orange Converse All Stars (a clue that came in a dream!)

Two more women in Body Central.

A mother, daughter, and son in Wal Mart...they said "God loves you too." We know :)

We spent a good amount of time talking with Elenore. We prayed for healing in her knee (a word of knowledge that came in the form of physical pain in Dani's own knee.) and she asked us to take care of our bodies by wearing shoes with support.

Prayed an overall blessing over Gayner.

Talked to a girl who asked for prayer for her mother, Erika.

At prayer mountain a guy overheard us talking about our trip and came over to ask questions about it. After explaining it all to him he started walking away and said, "By the way, my name is Felix." Whoa, whoa, whoa...clue! We informed him it was a clue but he merely said "no way" and just walked away. We yelled after him that God has him on His heart since He gave us the clue but he just kept walking.

Blessings/Funny stuff:

While riding in Lindsey's car we decided to just let our bodies go limp and move with the flow of the vehicle....weird, crazy, silly...whatever you want to call it, it was fun! We dare you to try it :)

Also, busting out in a good ole belly laugh is good for the soul. Just laughing as hard as you can is very therapeutic.

While swimming, a giant roach landed on Lindsey and we all proceded to scream as she frollicked in the pool trying to get it off.

Grandma. Enough said.

You know how we said that we played volleyball? Yeah, well, that happened without an actual volleyBALL or net. We used a soccer ball and had no rules. Add ten crazy kids and you have a recipe for pure joy.

Tomorrow we are going to church with Lindsey and then we're hitting the road again.